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JIMMY BUTLER INTERVIEW

Rachel Nichols: But then after the season ended did you talk to Coach Thibs?

Jimmy Butler: Yes I did.

Nichols: How soon after the season did you tell him how you felt?

Butler: Four days.

Nichols: Four days after the season?

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Butler: Four.

Nichols: How clear were you?

Butler: Have you ever known me to hide anything? Look what happened today at practice. Have you ever known me to hold back? No. So there's your answer. I was completely honest about everything. About everything.

Nichols: And about what you wanted? And where you wanted to be?

Butler: [Nods]

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Nichols: So this doesn't really get reported throughout the summer. Then a week before training camp, there's another conversation with Thibs, and here come all the reports: Jimmy Butler asked for a trade.

Butler: It wasn't a week before. We've been talking all summer long, everybody knew the truth throughout the organization because I'm gonna tell you the truth. Like it or not, anybody, fans, whatever. Like it or not, it wasn't just then, so we can put that to rest. It was not just then.